Digitaria eriantha

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Digitaria eriantha Steud. Flora 12: 468 (1829)

Basionym
- Digitaria commutata subsp. eriantha (Steud.) Maire, Fl. Afrique N. 1: 301 (1952).
Heterotypic
- Digitaria eriantha var. stolonifera Stapf in W.H.Harvey & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Cap. 7: 375 (1898).
- Digitaria hiascens Mez, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57: 193 (1921).
- Digitaria smutsii Stent, Bothalia 1: 268 (1924).
- Digitaria decumbens Stent, Bothalia 3: 150 (1930).
- Digitaria geniculata Stent, Bothalia 3: 154 (1930).
- Digitaria glauca Stent, Bothalia 3: 151 (1930), nom. illeg.
- Digitaria glauca var. bechuanica Stent, Bothalia 3: 152 (1930).
- Digitaria pentzii Stent, Bothalia 3: 147 (1930).
- Digitaria pentzii var. minor Stent, Bothalia 3: 148 (1930).
- Digitaria valida Stent, Bothalia 3: 148 (1930).
- Digitaria valida var. glauca Stent, Bothalia 3: 149 (1930).
- Digitaria dinteri Henrard, Blumea 1: 97 (1934).
- Digitaria livida Henrard, Blumea 1: 101 (1934).
- Digitaria stentiana Henrard, Blumea 1: 97 (1934).
- Digitaria bechuanica (Stent) Henrard, Monogr. Digitaria: 295 (1950).
- Digitaria nemoralis Henrard, Monogr. Digitaria: 488 (1950).
- Digitaria pentzii var. stolonifera (Stapf) Henrard, Monogr. Digitaria: 544 (1950).
- Digitaria eriantha subsp. pentzii (Stent) Kok, Bothalia 13: 457 (1981).
- Digitaria eriantha subsp. stolonifera (Stapf) Kok, Bothalia 13: 457 (1981), no basionym ref.
- Digitaria eriantha subsp. transvaalensis Kok, Bothalia 13: 457 (1981).
- Digitaria umfolozi D.W.Hall, Turrialba 33: 327 (1983).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa
- Regional: Southern Africa
  - Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
- Introduced into:
  - Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, East Himalaya, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Hawaii, Honduras, Leeward Is., Malaya, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago

Steudel, E.G. von 1829. Flora, oder (Allgemeine) Botanischer Zeitung. Regensberg, Jena 12:468.

Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2016. Digitaria eriantha in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Oct. 29. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Digitaria eriantha. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 29 2016.

Afrikaans: Vingergras, Smutsvingergras
English: Common finger grass, Digit grass, Pangola grass, Woolly finger grass

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